A One and A Two (Yi Yi)

I want to tell others things they don’t know. Show them things they can’t see.

Premiered in the official competition of the 53rd Cannes Film Festival. Winners of the 53rd Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture.

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century. 

Yi Yi is considered the final installment of the “New Taipei Trilogy”. The film premiered in the official competition of the 53rd Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Best DirectorAward. Yi Yi was ranked 7th on the list of the top 10 films of the year by the French film magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma.” Additionally, it won the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture. Currently, Yi Yi is regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.